Analyse and evaluate climate change projections
for the North Pacific and its marginal seas based on predictions
from the latest global and regional models submitted to the
Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for their
4th assessment report;

Facilitate analyses of climate effects on
marine ecosystems and ecosystem feedbacks to climate by, for
example computing an ensemble of the IPCC model projections
for the North Pacific and making these projections available
to other PICES groups such as CFAME;

Facilitate the development of higher-resolution
regional ocean and coupled atmosphere-ocean models that are
forced by, and take their boundary conditions from, IPCC global
or regional models;

Facilitate the development of local and regional
data sets (e.g., SST, river flow, sea ice cover) by incorporating
information from climate model projections as well as observations
and historical re-analyses;